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by David M Willis on February 23, 2024 at 12:01 am
  • 03 – Trystin' in the Wind
└ Tags: becky, joyce, tristan

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    February 23, 2024 at 12:02 am | #

    “ARE YOU CALLING ME A DRAWER DO I LOOK LIKE FURNITURE”

  2. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    February 23, 2024 at 12:03 am | #

    Way to stifle youth creativity, Tristan! You jerk!

    • anon
      anon
      February 23, 2024 at 12:45 am | #

      well she’s taking nude drawing classes now at least

  3. Pocky
    Pocky
    February 23, 2024 at 12:05 am | #

    I feel like this is leading to something repressed, that I am not ready to see.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      February 23, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

      I really have no idea what the payoff for this is going to be, so that’s exciting. Slightly ominous, mostly exciting.

      • Bryy
        Bryy
        February 23, 2024 at 12:27 am | #

        I smell a new plot arc that won’t be resolved for three years.

      • GholaHalleck
        GholaHalleck
        February 23, 2024 at 1:46 am | #

        the payoff is going to be Becky saving the picture as her first love token, because Joyce drew them together.

    • anon
      anon
      February 23, 2024 at 12:46 am | #

      Be hilariously messed up if she and joe finally hooked up and her saying tristan’s name, tho hopefully he wouldn’t take that too personally i’m sure joe’s hooked up with women saying someone else’s name 😛

      • Bash
        Bash
        February 23, 2024 at 1:44 am | #

        Sure, but not his first serious girlfriend.

    • Ryan
      Ryan
      February 23, 2024 at 9:33 am | #

      I’m expecting the repressed memory is a Titanicesque drawing scene with Tristan as her first model.

      … or trauma.

    • HueSatLight
      HueSatLight
      February 23, 2024 at 10:18 am | #

      I’m guessing: Joyce secretly already knows Charlie, who lives in the next town over.

    • PedanticJerkass
      PedanticJerkass
      February 23, 2024 at 4:07 pm | #

      It’s all fun and games until the blue tint changes to red.

    • Inahc
      Inahc
      February 24, 2024 at 10:37 pm | #

      have you watched Turning Red? it’s really good, and also has, uh, drawings.

  4. Wraithy2773
    Wraithy2773
    February 23, 2024 at 12:05 am | #

    Smooooooooooth.

  5. Nono
    Nono
    February 23, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

    I guess in this first contest of wills…. It’s a draw.

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      February 23, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

      *Rimshot*

    • Aura
      Aura
      February 23, 2024 at 2:04 am | #

      Had to read that 3 times to check if you’d written ‘contest of willis’

      • Miafillene
        Miafillene
        February 23, 2024 at 12:21 pm | #

        *giggles!* I read it as contest of willies. 😂

        • Aura
          Aura
          February 25, 2024 at 6:09 am | #

          omg this would be an interesting setting for a dick-measuring contest 😂

  6. HueSatLight
    HueSatLight
    February 23, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

    motion lines are from the Bible coming alive and turning into Psalty, to teach Joyce the importance of using the cover as a hard surface.

  7. Laura
    Laura
    February 23, 2024 at 12:10 am | #

    Just in case anyone’s feeling as easily excitable and distractible as Joyce is, here’s some concentration music to help folks stay focused:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSfMk06xQKo

    (I’m struggling to concentrate on work, and sending hope to anyone else who might be struggling with something similar.)

    • Laura
      Laura
      February 23, 2024 at 12:10 am | #

      * Played on the hacked gym speakers, of course.

    • Icalasari
      Icalasari
      February 23, 2024 at 12:14 am | #

      Or for those with ADHD like I have, there is this

      (TW: Cover art shows self harm)

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osrqsgO6MGY

      Breakcore for some reason works with ADHD

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        February 23, 2024 at 9:37 am | #

        Breakcore usually pisses me off. It’s too all over the place for me to concentrate on other things with it playing, due to my ADHD forcing me to keep track of it.

    • eh, whatever
      eh, whatever
      February 23, 2024 at 6:42 am | #

      Highly distracting.

  8. RassilonTDavros
    RassilonTDavros
    February 23, 2024 at 12:14 am | #

    Aaaah, I remember hiding the drawings I made in my church programs from the people around me. About two thirds of them were of Sonic the Hedgehog, albeit generally not bowing before the crucifixion. The other third were other characters from cartoons I watched. All three thirds were drawn exclusively in three-quarters view, and the vast majority were headshots with no body.

    None of these figures include the ones where I just wrote down random lists of things.

    • AbacusWizard
      AbacusWizard
      February 23, 2024 at 1:07 am | #

      I remember drawing a bunch of weird little monsters, because I had just read Bill Peet’s autobiography.

    • ktbear
      ktbear
      February 23, 2024 at 1:36 am | #

      Regretably I missed this fun exercise because my mother never took me to Wiccan gatherings.

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        February 23, 2024 at 7:35 pm | #

        Don’t worry, we Wiccans didn’t have programs to draw in.

    • John Campbell
      John Campbell
      February 23, 2024 at 2:21 am | #

      Is it even possible to draw Sonic the Hedgehog not prostrating himself before a cross?

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        February 23, 2024 at 3:12 am | #

        If there’s anything the Internet taught me against my will, it’s that there are many things someone can draw Sonic doing that aren’t prostrating himself before a cross.

        • Taellosse
          Taellosse
          February 23, 2024 at 4:35 am | #

          I’m betting that an alarming number of those things DO involve prostration, though!

          And probably also prostate stimulation, for that matter. Possibly with crosses, even! #SorryNotSorry

          • Taffy
            Taffy
            February 23, 2024 at 9:08 am | #

            I guess it could work. I’ve seen some plugs with fairly narrow bases, (they’re kinda like an old-timey anchor) but you’d have to do something about the corners, like using round rods instead, otherwise you might risk some very avoidable injuries.

  9. Suet
    Suet
    February 23, 2024 at 12:18 am | #

    That explains the bonus strip so much.

    You can’t distance yourself from Tristan forever, Joyce! She’s giving Tristan the Geiger counter treatment!

    • anon
      anon
      February 23, 2024 at 12:48 am | #

      he’s either gonna end up being a youth pastor or even louder at being lgbt than becky haha

  10. Bryy
    Bryy
    February 23, 2024 at 12:26 am | #

    Never going to live down the autism accusations.

    • Daibhid C
      Daibhid C
      February 23, 2024 at 3:48 am | #

      “Accusations”?

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      February 23, 2024 at 9:05 am | #

      Thanks, I’m stealing this phrase for general purposes.

  11. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    February 23, 2024 at 12:40 am | #

    Didn’t even bat an eye. Probably used to it

    • anon
      anon
      February 23, 2024 at 12:47 am | #

      based on how he looks it seems like he’s a young teen with joyce being like 11-12 so he prolly just thinks she’s being a silly kid?

      • Tan
        Tan
        February 23, 2024 at 2:24 am | #

        It’s been implied that Tristan went away to college at the same time Joyce and Becky did, so I doubt he’s significantly older

      • David M Willis
        David M Willis
        February 23, 2024 at 8:36 am | #

        They’re all 13 here.

  12. DashWallkick
    DashWallkick
    February 23, 2024 at 1:38 am | #

    Why do I get the feeling the end of this is going to be Becky going “oh him? I just said that to mess with you. or maybe find out if you like girls.”

    • Bash
      Bash
      February 23, 2024 at 1:40 am | #

      I think somebody else said it first. But one of the other commenters suggested it might have been a way to make fun of Joyce.

      • DashWallkick
        DashWallkick
        February 23, 2024 at 5:14 am | #

        Becky has been antagonistic her whole time in this comic, there’s literally no reason to think Joyce’s first sexual/romantic awakening wasn’t entirely a one-off joke she said to fuck with her.

      • Daibhid C
        Daibhid C
        February 23, 2024 at 5:16 am | #

        It was Misha. Misha is the person who said that Tristram likes Joyce. Well, she said that Izzy said that Kory said that Carrie said Tristram likes Joyce. Any one of those people could be messing with her, but Becky’s involvement in this has been pretty much purely “mildly annoyed about the idea for reasons she’s not prepared to articulate even to herself”.

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          February 23, 2024 at 9:01 am | #

          Tristram is a shitty name. I’ve only known one and I never saw him sober.

          • Schpoonman
            Schpoonman
            February 23, 2024 at 9:26 am | #

            I only played Diablo 3 and that’s all I can think.

          • HueSatLight
            HueSatLight
            February 23, 2024 at 10:28 am | #

            Tristan is a Corny name.

  13. Raen
    Raen
    February 23, 2024 at 2:41 am | #

    Okay, I’m about 110% sure I’m wrong here, but since we’ve never seen Tristan in the present, I’m starting to wonder if this flashback is building to Joyce and Becky making out, before they really knew what they were doing? It would explain why Becky thought she could get away with kissing Joyce, and we’ve been shown a thousand times that pretty much the only character who thinks Joyce is totally straight is Joyce.

    • Amós Batista
      Amós Batista
      February 23, 2024 at 3:43 am | #

      It could be awesome, but Joyce already told her first kiss was with Ethan.

      • Taellosse
        Taellosse
        February 23, 2024 at 4:41 am | #

        But would she have counted kissing Becky, if it had been done “for practice”? That seems like just the sort of deeply arbitrary and thoroughly irrational self-deception a young Joyce might engage in (and Becky urge her to adopt) in order to avoid admitting to something so unChristian.

        • Wraithy2773
          Wraithy2773
          February 23, 2024 at 8:07 pm | #

          I think it would’ve come up before now, given how hard Becky has thirsted (and still low-key thirsts) for Joyce.

  14. Needfuldoer
    Needfuldoer
    February 23, 2024 at 3:09 am | #

    S H A M E

  15. Amós Batista
    Amós Batista
    February 23, 2024 at 3:47 am | #

    My bet is Joyce and Joe will have their first time in this storyline.

    • Thomas
      Thomas
      February 23, 2024 at 4:08 am | #

      Her first time actually touching Joe’s tushy, more likely. Without removal of pants, of course.

  16. Thomas
    Thomas
    February 23, 2024 at 3:53 am | #

    Obviously the single most exciting interaction Joyce ever had with Tristan.

    There’s not much to go on, but he seems a bit scornful of her drawing. So instead of extremely bland, he’ll probably turn out to be a controlling jerk with an supreme lack of imagination or appreciation for anything remotely artistic.

    • Thomas
      Thomas
      February 23, 2024 at 4:03 am | #

      I mean, the fact that he just walks through is not an indicator of a warm interest in Joyce or her drawing. It’s a thing that she does that he’s way too serious for, because he’ll soon be a man and thus a responsible adult member of the congregation. If church teaches anything it’s teaching young men to feel self-important. As if any of them needed exhortation, anyway.

      • Jeremiah
        Jeremiah
        February 23, 2024 at 7:26 am | #

        I cannot tell if this a serious analysis or if you are joking

        • Thomas
          Thomas
          February 23, 2024 at 9:54 am | #

          It is my firm belief that Tristan will turn out to be either extremely bland or else just as horrible as the worst representatives of that congregation. What we’ve got so far points towards bland. Joyce had a crush on a guy who is just not that special. It happens.

          But he does seems a bit frowny… and certainly not interested in her drawing. Extrapolating and wildly exaggerating from that I arrive at the type of religious youth that has absolutely no sense of humor or playfulness because he is a serious adult and frivolity is a distraction. They exist. They would probably be boring anyway, but their upbringing favours the lack of spirit as a virtue.

          • Thomas
            Thomas
            February 23, 2024 at 10:13 am | #

            He could have picked up her psalter for her, right? It would have been kind. What kind of christian leaves a religious book lying on the floor? So he seems a bit above actually being attentive to her.

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      February 23, 2024 at 9:26 am | #

      I think you’re way off. Look at his nose, it’s much longer than a typical boy his age. This is a very old artistic flourish to indicate somebody is being dishonest, in reference to the story of Pinocchio, a living boy-shaped puppet whose nose grew when he lied. Pair that with Joyce explicitly denying she’s drawing (or has ever done so) and it becomes clear that Tristan is accusing her of things he knows she isn’t doing (and never does), deliberately telling lies and starting rumors.

      Notice also how he only says it while Becky is near Joyce, that’s our second clue. He wants an audience. He needs an audience, otherwise his lie is for nothing. He needs Becky to hear it, to manipulate her and implant the idea into her mind of Joyce drawing, not just now but “again”, implying this is a habit of hers. This is something she Does™, a defining trait of hers, and since Becky is Joyce’s best friend, he’s planting more than an idea; he’s planting doubt.

      As far as Becky knows, her bestie doesn’t draw, because Joyce is a good and honest Christian girl who hates lying (she even said so to Ethan later in life), so Becky should be able to feel certain that Joyce is not, in fact, a draw-er. But now she can’t, because Tristan is saying otherwise. As certain as Becky may be, someone is contradicting the reality she knows, someone who she likely trusts as a member of the same congregation.

      It’s genuinely fucked up, the way Tristan is playing these two against one another. If we see him in the present day, I don’t doubt he’s going to be an antagonist. He’s way too much of a scumbag to be anything else.

      • HueSatLight
        HueSatLight
        February 23, 2024 at 10:36 am | #

        paragraph 1: agree with Pinocchio allusion
        paragraph 2: disagree. He only says it while Becky is near Joyce because Becky is throwing her voice.
        Tristan is a marionette that Becky has somehow animated in a cruel mockery of life, and must do ventriloquism to make him appear to speak, all for the goal of teasing Joyce.
        If we see him in the present day, he will have gone feral, operating on a twisted version of the last commands Becky gave him.

      • John Campbell
        John Campbell
        February 23, 2024 at 12:43 pm | #

        If webcomics have taught me anything, it’s that characters drawn with extremely long noses are werewolves.

    • Mark
      Mark
      February 23, 2024 at 6:36 pm | #

      I would have said distracted, keeping in touch while hurrying by for some reason…

      …wait, I know this one! Tristan does like Joyce, and can’t resist saying something, but is keeping it bland because he’s scared of saying the wrong thing.

      In the year 2525, when Mr. Willis’ distant descendants are drawing these characters in their 60s, these two will run into each other at the supermarket and Tristan will say, “heh, I used to have the biggest crush on you, but I couldn’t get you to notice me.” Joyce will be unable to speak for hours.

  17. CianM1301
    CianM1301
    February 23, 2024 at 4:20 am | #

    All the elegance and subtlety of a brick through a window.

  18. Mendel
    Mendel
    February 23, 2024 at 4:22 am | #

    The real news is that Joyce pulled past Dina on the “who’s hottest” poll.
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      Sharaku
      February 23, 2024 at 5:11 am | #

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      This comic needs a better voting method i say! One which prevents the creation of a ‘Two hotties’ system.

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        Daibhid C
        February 23, 2024 at 5:52 am | #

        Single Transferrable Hotness.

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        Then we just end up with a Three Hottie Problem.

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          *slow clap*

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      Wraithy2773
      February 23, 2024 at 8:07 pm | #

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  19. Heather
    Heather
    February 23, 2024 at 8:15 am | #

    Kind of wondering if this is building up to us seeing Tristan in the present day. So what’s he doing now:
    A) Training to be a youth pastor
    B) Ran off with the mysterious brother Jordan
    C) Dead

  20. Steamweed
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    February 23, 2024 at 8:17 am | #

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      David M Willis
      February 23, 2024 at 8:35 am | #

      I’m not a republic serial villain,

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      February 23, 2024 at 2:04 pm | #

      fanart. It can be whatever skill-level you’re at.

  21. Taffy
    Taffy
    February 23, 2024 at 9:34 am | #

    Weren’t these characters 18-19 just a few strips ago? What the fuck? If they’re suddenly all 13 (and not even in the same fucking building as before???), then what’s going on with the scene we were just reading? Are Charlie and Carla 5 years younger too? Is everyone in the main cast just underage now? This doesn’t make any fucking sense, and I have to call bullshit on this random, unexplained narrative twist. Time doesn’t work that way, for fuck’s sake!!!

    • Superducked
      Superducked
      February 23, 2024 at 11:03 am | #

      It’s called a flashback, mate. We’re seeing Joyce’s memories.

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        February 23, 2024 at 11:13 am | #

        You can’t just make things up.

        • Woof McGee
          Woof McGee
          February 23, 2024 at 12:44 pm | #

          Pretty sure the blue flashback strips are the true DOA timeline and the rest will be revealed to be young Joyce‘s dream.

      • Wraithy2773
        Wraithy2773
        February 23, 2024 at 8:09 pm | #

        I think Taffy’s doing a bit. See also the avatar…

  22. Amós Batista
    Amós Batista
    February 23, 2024 at 9:36 am | #

    I am Joyce in this strip: I’m used to draw and write in church. But I do it during service, too.

    • Schpoonman
      Schpoonman
      February 23, 2024 at 10:49 am | #

      I miss Mitch, too.

  23. J
    J
    February 23, 2024 at 10:26 am | #

    Bible-flop

  24. Ray
    Ray
    February 23, 2024 at 10:38 am | #

    Drawing is a sin…. gateway to (horrors!) DANCING!

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      February 23, 2024 at 11:16 am | #

      If somebody tried to draw while dancing, they might draw something that’s not a white European Jesus, and that’s bad for some reason.

    • Mturtle7
      Mturtle7
      February 23, 2024 at 2:50 pm | #

      Joyce’s Dad has been very insistent multiples times in this comic that THIS church they’re in now is OK with dancing! It was only the LAST church they belonged to that hated dancing! The Baptist one! THIS ONE IS BETTER (in that highly specific capacity)!

  25. Adept
    Adept
    February 23, 2024 at 11:19 am | #

    Wait, is this a thing? Is drawing discouraged?

    • Cloud
      Cloud
      February 23, 2024 at 12:35 pm | #

      I’m pretty sure it’s because she doesn’t want Tristan to know she drew him.

    • Mturtle7
      Mturtle7
      February 23, 2024 at 2:51 pm | #

      She’s just reflexively panicking at being seen and acknowledged by Tristan in any way.

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      February 23, 2024 at 6:44 pm | #

      Yeah, he’s gonna go rat her out to the Church Cops and they’re gonna take her to Church Jail.

    • HueSatLight
      HueSatLight
      February 23, 2024 at 8:02 pm | #

      She’s making herself some images in the form of some things on the earth.

  26. Yeet
    Yeet
    February 23, 2024 at 12:59 pm | #

    well she’s managed to tell joe she likes drawing so, suck it tristan

  27. a/snow/mous/e
    a/snow/mous/e
    February 23, 2024 at 5:18 pm | #

    throwing the Lord’s book in vain

  28. Kazuma Taichi
    Kazuma Taichi
    February 23, 2024 at 5:48 pm | #

    dang she really learned to associate anything and everything love-related to shame, didn’t she? ToT

    • Schpoonman
      Schpoonman
      February 23, 2024 at 10:10 pm | #

      Religion will fuck up a young mind.

  29. zee
    zee
    February 23, 2024 at 5:51 pm | #

    It’s late so idk how many people will see this but this feels too relevant to not share, I found this TikTok/shorts series about basically Joyce if she was born into a slightly different situation
    Even the hair is kinda similar, it was all i could think the whole time

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